A New Name to Enter the Decade of Action
Shared Value Project Hong Kong becomes Shared Value Initiative Hong Kong, effective 14 April. Gaëlle Loiseau, our CEO, explains the reasons for this change in this article.
JEB 集團成為首位中小企會員
Shared Value Initiative Hong Kong welcomes its first SME member: JEB Group, headquartered in Hong Kong and a provider of innovative solutions for corporate and commercial environments. Discover with Sam Beere, JEB’s General Manager, how the group started its journey to Creating Shared Value.
Learnings from CREATIVE COLLISION 2020
CREATIVE COLLISION defies description, which is why we always use the term “non-conference”. It’s a forum for discussion, a platform for ideas exchange, a stage for speaking and a sandpit for experimentation, ideation and creativity. We have turned to the session leaders themselves for their key takeaways, asking them how their learnings from the 2020 event can be used to build back better with Shared Value.
Partnerships to Create Shared Value
ReThink, Hong Kong’s sustainability forum held 28-29 October, set itself a high bar by asking from the outset, how can we help businesses accelerate change towards a more sustainable future? Moderated by SVIHK CEO Gaëlle Loiseau, the panel ‘Effective partnerships with positive impact on Hong Kong’s ecosystem’, dug deep into this question by focusing on the ‘how’, and recognising that attempting change at scale in isolation is futile unless players join together for greater impact and intentional Shared Value.
Hong Kong Wins Big at 2020 Shared Value Awards
We’re proud and very excited that two Shared Value Initiative Hong Kong Members are winners of the 2020 Shared Value Awards. Adrian Cheng, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice-Chairman at New World Development Company Limited has been named Shared Value Champion, while SUEZ NWS received the Shared Value Project of the Year to Watch for their work on the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park.
SUEZ NWS Joins as Industry Member
With a strong presence of 45+ years in Greater China, SUEZ NWS is a preferred partner in helping authorities and industrial clients develop water and waste management solutions that enable cities and industries to optimise their resource management and strengthen their environment and economic performances. By joining SVIHK, SUEZ NWS can leverage our expertise to strive for solutions on societal problems and address community need together with other members of SVIHK.
Shared Value Business Strategy Steps Up with Post-Pandemic Roadmap
There’s a new business movement percolating in Hong Kong which is causing companies, large and small, to re-think how and why they will operate in a post-pandemic society. The concept of embedding purpose, as well as profit, in business strategy has been introduced to members of the British Chamber of Commerce by the Hong Kong chapter of a global initiative which has grown out of Harvard Business School.
AMTD Joins as SVIHK’s 10th Founding Member
AMTD Group has been a pioneer in cultivating Hong Kong’s innovation entrepreneurship and contributing to Hong Kong’s society through its proprietary SpiderNet ecosystem. By joining Shared Value Initiative Hong Kong, AMTD will have the opportunity to share its experience and resources with other business leaders and practitioners who are implementing Shared Value strategies to jointly propel Shared Value adoption in Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area.
AXA Asia partners with Columbia University WHO Center for Global Mental Health to help companies protect employees’ mental health during and post-COVID-19
With the pandemic’s centre of gravity moving away from Asia, the region has begun to celebrate positive trends in the fight against COVID-19. A significant milestone has been for our colleagues across Asia to return to the office. As we approached this process, we recognised that the pandemic has also put renewed pressure on longstanding concerns over mind health, including in the workplace.
Welcoming G For Good, New World Development as SVIHK Founding Member
G For Good believes doing good is a fundamental value and aims to reinject purpose into business, a subsidiary of New World Development, co-founded by Adrian Cheng and Garrick Lau, G For Good advocates and supports various social innovation projects, including to provide resources in discovering, developing and incubating social entrepreneurial projects, organise conferences and workshops to spread Creating Shared Value in the community.
SVIHK Corporate Community Pledge to Promote Mental Well-being at Work
On World Mental Health Day on 10 Oct. 2019, corporate Members of Shared Value Initiative Hong Kong (SVIHK) announced a collective pledge to improve mental well-being in their workplaces and reduce stigma on mental health topics in Hong Kong. Pledging Members include Accenture, AIA Hong Kong, AXA, Barclays, EY, Nestlé, Tricor Group and The Executive Centre, representing prominent businesses in Hong Kong from diverse industries and with large workforces and customer bases.
Gordon Watson: Celebrating Two Years of Accelerated Progress
Global challenges are more apparent than ever. In an increasingly volatile, complex and uncertain environment it requires resilience for businesses to survive, let alone thrive. From every crisis, opportunities arise to innovate and a shared value culture opens up strategic possibilities and will differentiate an organization whilst simultaneously driving the next wave of innovation, productivity and economic growth.
